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Arthur Besse

@ cypherpunks @lemmy.ml

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cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions

  • They can't answer this

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  • Well, there was this German guy who immigrated to America evading the draft in Germany for WWI.

    Leaving in [checks notes] 1885 to evade the WWI draft would be some impressive foresight.

    (It was to avoid conscription, though.)

  • Politics 101

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  • Not sure what you are saying. With the order of the meme reversed it doesn’t make it obvious which point is supposed the clearer point of view…

    It isn't reversed compared to how this meme format is usually used: the glasses-on image is on the bottom, and associated with the viewpoint OP is saying is correct/better.

    If one hasn't seen (or has forgotten) the film, this is the way that makes sense, since glasses (generally) improve the wearer's vision.

    This meme's canonical format is however in fact at odds with the actual scene in the 2002 film:

    A related meme form which doesn't have this ambiguity is the much older they live sunglasses - here the position of the two images are used less consistently (though as with peter parker, usually glasses-on is the lower one) but the glasses being on showing the truth actually fits with how it is in the film.

  • Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse

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  • One group- memes or something is wholly controlled by Chinese state actors.

    As one of the moderators of !memes@lemmy.ml i encourage OP to look at the sort of posts i make and tell me - do you really think i'm a "Chinese state actor"?

    Do you think all these posts i make in, eg, !hoch@lemmy.ml and !goodnews@lemmy.ml and !badnews@lemmy.ml and !eleven@lemmy.ml... these are all part of a carefully-crafted cover, and I'm actually being paid by China to delete totally-not-racist posts depicting their president as a yellow cartoon bear?

    And for this service, to maintain my cover, they also pay me to create memes like this and this and this and this and this and this (and defending that one against less informed nerds) and this and this and this (a small sample of my OC here)?

    And do you think China paid for this understandable explanation of asymmetric cryptography using high-school level math, because someone asked, deep in a thread about a service which I'd also already debunked the snake-oil privacy claims of?

    Really?

  • Politics 101

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  • Abolish ICE is a political movement seeking the abolition of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency

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  • CBP is also the agency who's officer(s) murdered Alex Pretti yesterday. (It was an ICE officer who murdered Renee Good.)

  • Bad Bunyy plans to don a dress during his 2026 Super Bowl halftime show...

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  • Can you use Linux today without the terminal?

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  • Does anything provide a similar experience to Arch’s amazing AUR

    I am not aware of any software distribution service with a comparable experience (massive userbase with zero vetting for uploaders) as Arch's amazing AUR - if you are looking for a way to distribute malware to many unsuspecting people (who's friends think they're hackerman), it's really unparalleled. (😢)

    To your primary question, yes, many people do successfully daily drive various Linux distros without ever opening the terminal. 🙄

  • iceout.tech

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  • unsurprisingly this has been [flagged] and deleted from the orange site.

  • Lights Out (that game with a grid where toggling one tile toggles adjacent tiles as well)

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  • Abolish ICE is a political movement seeking the abolition of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency

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  • This is a sedate forum

    [citation needed]

  • Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature

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  • I'm tired of LLM bullshitting. So I fixed it.

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  • AI "educator" is mad at people for stealing prompts

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  • You can count past 1,000 on your fingers by using binary, instead of just 10

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  • time for this classic again:

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  • Surely This tech billionaire is different right

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  • odd that their username is @icegov.bsky.social instead of @ice.gov... i guess nobody on their social media team knows how to configure a DNS record or create a .well-known textfile.

  • You don't have to use gyroelongation

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  • maybe this helps? (via a comment in my previous post of this meme)

  • Heinously Unethical

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  • This tweet is conflating two different countries, Guinea and Guinea-Bissau, using their names interchangeably. The linked article is solely about the latter.

  • Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out

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  • the fact that they know your plate number is different than knowing if you (or someone) queried a website about which police queried flock about it

  • Has somebody looked up your license plate in Flock? Now you can find out

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  • reposting my comment from the thread yesterday:

    reposting my comment in a thread last month about this:

    in b4 haveibeenhaveibeenflocked.

    they have a list of their current collection of 239 .csv files but sadly don’t appear to let you actually download them to query offline

    they now have 519 sources, some of which are downloadable from muckrock but many aren't.

    i still don't understand why this website isn't open source and open data, and i strongly recommend thinking carefully about it (eg, thinking about if you'd mind if the existence of your query becomes known to police and/or the public) before deciding if you want to type a given plate number in to it.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Strengthen your arguments with compelling programming book covers

    orlybooks.com
  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Strengthen your arguments with compelling programming book covers

    orlybooks.com
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    Richmond California's incoming police chief shut down Flock license plate readers after discovering data was searchable by federal agencies (in violation of a California law prohibiting exactly that)

    richmondside.org /2025/12/09/richmond-license-plate-reader-data-breach/
  • Not the Onion @lemmy.ml
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    "I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it into your workflows immediately. Al should be in your battle rhythm every single day" says Pete Hegseth

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    "I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it into your workflows immediately. Al should be in your battle rhythm every single day" says Pete Hegseth

  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    "I expect every member of the Department to log in, learn it, and incorporate it into your workflows immediately. Al should be in your battle rhythm every single day" says Pete Hegseth

  • Golang @programming.dev
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    Go proposal: Secret mode

    antonz.org /accepted/runtime-secret/
  • The Onion @midwest.social
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    Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process

    theonion.com /not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Linux kernel version numbers (Greg Kroah-Hartman's blog)

    www.kroah.com /log/blog/2025/12/09/linux-kernel-version-numbers/
  • The Onion @midwest.social
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    New Poll Finds 86 Percent Of Americans Don't Want To Have A Country Anymore

    theonion.com /new-poll-finds-86-percent-of-americans-dont-want-to-hav-1819568337/
  • Late Stage Capitalism @lemmygrad.ml
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    Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video

    www.amazon.science /publications/zero-shot-virtual-product-placement-in-videos
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    AI Is still making code worse: A new CMU study confirms

    blog.robbowley.net /2025/12/04/ai-is-still-making-code-worse-a-new-cmu-study-confirms/
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why did the proposed Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance project involve pumping water instead of siphoning it?

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Sea%E2%80%93Dead_Sea_Water_Conveyance
  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.ca
    Arthur Besse @lemmy.ml

    Why did the proposed Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance project involve pumping water instead of siphoning it?

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Red_Sea%E2%80%93Dead_Sea_Water_Conveyance
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Trump-backed crypto company promotes 'Shit Piss Skin Can' memecoin of its co-founder's rant "You can literally sell shit in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin [...] people will buy it"

    gizmodo.com /trump-crypto-bitcoin-btc-price-shit-piss-skin-can-wlfi-2000692230
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Let's See What's Going On Down At The Piss Factory: Our "we're not Enron" memo is raising many questions which are already answered by our memo.

    www.todayintabs.com /p/let-s-see-what-s-going-on-down-at-the-piss-factory
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    List of Streisand effect examples

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Streisand_effect_examples
  • United States | News & Politics @lemmy.ml
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    US Lawmakers Want To Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They’re Doing

    www.techdirt.com /2025/12/01/lawmakers-want-to-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing/
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Pre-Code Hollywood

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pre-Code_Hollywood
  • History @hexbear.net
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    The Penicillin Myth: Competing theories seek to explain inconsistencies surrounding Alexander Fleming’s famed discovery

    www.asimov.press /p/penicillin-myth